Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday published “Wastebook: The Farce Awakens,” a 286-page book that revealed how the government has recently wasted $100 billion on ridiculous projects — and when you read what some of them were, you won’t believe it.

Flake appeared on Fox News’ “On the Record” Tuesday where he discussed some of the government’s most wasteful spending with host Greta Van Susteren.

He told her the government spent $276,000 on a study to discover why some people date out of their league. Another $1.3 million was spent to establish if beer koozies actually work. The government also doled out $5 million to get hipsters to quit smoking.

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The government also thought it was important to know whether pizza was as addictive as crack and spent $780,000 to find out. Another $1 million dollars was spent on a study analyzing how the Southwest National Primate Research Center trained 12 marmoset monkeys to run on a treadmill.

The government granted NASA $1.2 million to “mimic the impact of space travel on bones to better understand bone health and healing” with a group of sheep. NASA didn’t send the sheep to space; they put the back leg of each sheep in a brace to simulate the effects of microgravity.

$2.1 million dollars was wasted promoting tourism to Lebanon despite the fact that the State Department issued a travel warning in May urging Americans “to avoid all travel to Lebanon because of ongoing safety and security concerns,” Flake wrote.

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The Arizona Republican explained that money allocated for certain legislation is no longer a singular vote and multiple bills are often presented together.

“When you do that, it’s very difficult to have real oversight over these agencies,” Flake said.